Flair Fashionary

We’re back! Hope you’re as excited as we are to do some learning! Let’s ease into things though, no one wants to learn about hems every week. So this week we’re gonna look at collection based words that describe how fashion is compiled! Dweek!

Say welcome back fashionary!

Capsule Collection:

Every woman needs a capsule collection which is essentially the most important pieces from a collection of clothes. Capsule collections work to streamline your wardrobe and elevate your style creating for you a sort of uniformed look which is your definitive style. With a capsule collection, anyone who sees you will know immediately on sight what your personal style is. This type of garment curation was actually popularised in the 1980s by Donna Karan.

Haute Couture:

Let’s make using this phrase wrongly a thing of the past. Haute Couture isn’t just any and everything fashion, it references a very specific process of the garment industry and is actually governed by a body called the ‘Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture’. To qualify as Haute Couture, it must come from à ‘Haute Couture House’ where there is an atelier of fifteen full-time staff and twenty full-time technical workers. The ‘house’ must deliver a complete collection of around 50 pieces to present. So, as you can see, not everything is Haute Couture.

Look-Books:

Anyone can put together a lookbook, but a lookbook is officially a compilation of photos presented by a designer of their collection of clothing, accessories or footwear. The lookbook is as old as there have been mass produced clothing so they literally started as a book of the designers looks, hence, the lookbook The lookbook provides the public, whether they be press or retail buyers so they can know what they’d like.